In article <1995Mar24.161103 at ebi.ac.uk> omond at ebi.ac.uk (Roy Omond) writes:
> In article <3ks4t2$sj1 at due.uninett.no>, inge at lind.ii.uib.no (Inge Jonassen)
> writes:
> > The program has been implemnted in ANSI C. It has been compiled and
> > run on different UNIX workstations, DEC Alpha, Sun, Silicon Graphics.
>> Since it's been written in ANSI C (thanks, Inge !), it will also run
> perfectly well on VMS using DEC C. Wouldn't it be nice if all software
> developers would actually use standards like ANSI C ?
Those of use who combine ANSI C with FORTRAN 77 still seem to have problems
persuading our applications to build on VMS after developing on Unix.
(Yes, I know FORTRAN 77 is no longer the standard, but we are talking VAXen
here and they won't get f90 :-)
Not to mention all those applications from VMS that don't build on Unix
because of mixed case file names, dependence on multiple file versions,
and so on.
No Roy!!! Don't!!! I asked you "not to mention..."
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